[New-Poetry] “What is your work about?”

[TheOldMole]

I actually try to answer that question when I'm asked. Many people don't 
know how to talk about poetry, or what questions to ask, but they're 
trying, and that's not the worst thing in the world. I kind of agree 
with what Paul Krassner once said, that he believed in ethic that would 
tell Mr. Jones what was happening.

So, it's about intimacy and isolation, and it's generally got at least 
an undercurrent of menace. Does that say anything? Maybe not. But it may 
satisfy someone who didn't really want to know anyway, or it may start a 
conversation.

Bob Grumman wrote:
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> Anny Ballardini wrote:
>> No, no, Roberto,
>> I was referring to James' initial post that started out like this:
>>  
>> "The most common and certainly the most difficult question I might be 
>> asked by a stranger on an airplane is..."
>
> I'll bet!!!  (You probably weren't aware of what the Transatlanteans 
> have done to me, but we won't go into that.)
>
> Roberto
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